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Earth’s magnetic song recorded for the first time during a solar storm 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 22, 2019
Data from ESA’s Cluster mission has provided a recording of the eerie “song” that Earth sings when it is hit by a solar storm.

By David Aragorn
How to watch over 400 meteors shoot through the sky for an hour Thursday night 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 21, 2019
The night sky could light up with hundreds of shooting stars for an hour on Thursday thanks to a spectacular celestial event.

By David Aragorn
Advocates promote planetary defense mission ahead of ESA ministerial 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 21, 2019
A group of planetary defense advocates is asking European governments to fund a mission to a near Earth asteroid, three years after a similar mission failed to win approval.

By David Aragorn
2 Infants Were Buried Wearing Helmets Made from Kids’ Skulls. And Archaeologists Are Puzzled.0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 21, 2019
Two infants were buried some 2,100 years ago wearing “helmets” made from the skulls of other children, archaeologists have discovered.

By David Aragorn
‘I knew that was going to happen:’ Déjà vu and the ‘postdictive’ bias 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 21, 2019
Memory researchers document a ‘postdictive’ bias in deja vu experiencers in the lab, and offer an explanation

By David Aragorn
A weird, orbital dance keeps these moons of Neptune from hitting each other 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 21, 2019
Bobbing up and down like a carousel horse might not sound like a stable way to orbit a planet, but it works for one little moon of Neptune. The planet’s innermost known satellite, Naiad, has a tilted orbit and it moves up-and-down relative to its neighboring moon, Thalassa.

By David Aragorn
If alien life exists in our solar system, it may look like this 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- November 21, 2019
Source: National Geographic Outside, the sinking sun is coloring the autumnal sky a brilliant lavender, a rich hue that lingers over a vast blanket of ice. Here, off the northern coast of Greenland, the Arctic Ocean is masquerading as land, a snowy patchwork of smooth ice floes and abrupt, jagged piles of crystalline debris. Only

By David Aragorn
NASA Scientists Confirm Water Vapor on Europa 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 21, 2019
Forty years ago, a Voyager spacecraft snapped the first closeup images of Europa, one of Jupiter’s 79 moons. These revealed brownish cracks slicing the moon’s icy surface, which give Europa the look of a veiny eyeball. Missions to the outer solar system in the decades since have amassed enough additional information about Europa to make it a high-priority target of investigation in NASA’s search for life.

By David Aragorn
Before We Find Aliens, Humans Need to Figure Ourselves Out, Anthropologist Says 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 20, 2019
Are we alone? Humans have a lot of questions about alien life. But those beings, if they exist, likely have some questions of their own about humans, queries we may want to answer before we find any life beyond Earth.

By David Aragorn
Ketogenic diet helps tame flu virus 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 20, 2019
A high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet like the Keto regimen has its fans, but influenza apparently isn’t one of them.

By David Aragorn